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Findus
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Jan 24, 2019

ASM Brute Force login mitigation with Captcha

I have a question regarding the ASM brute force login mitigation feature using captchas. Based on the failed logins setting the user gets challenged with a captcha. After solving the capture succesfu...
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Findus
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Apr 16, 2019

Just to let you know - the above described login sequence with captcha challenges works as designed. I clarified this via a support ticket.

 

Final answer from support:

 

"The Engineering Services team confirmed this is the expected behaviour. Only when the customer key in the correct captcha response when login was successful (meaning the right set of credentials before the challenge) would he not be challenged again in subsequent login requests."

 

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